And the Nominees Are...

Feb 03, 2010 04:15

A bunch of movies I was NOT expecting.

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Then again, this year also marks the first time I can remember that I only saw FOUR nominated films. Star Trek (makeup, sound editing, sound mixing, visual effects) , Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (cinematography), Sherlock Holmes (best original score), and *belabored sigh* Avatar (art direction, cinemagotgraphy, directing, editing, original score, sound mixing, sound editing, visual effects which makes me ask "Shouldn't this be considered an ANIMATED film?", and best picture).

I don't think Avatar was that great. Not a BAD movie, but by far from great. This feels like Titanic-fever all over again: everyone going gah-gah over a movie that was just "ok."

At any rate, I'm surprised by the top ten best picture nominations, mainly because of the resounding lack of Oscarbait which has swept the Academy in the past few years. All but two of the remaining movies are something I'd eagerly watch (yet just haven't).

This was a bad summer for movies, for me. A bad year in general, I suppose, because I saw Star Trek, and the next movie I saw was Sherlock Holmes. District 9, Up, A Serious Man, and Inglourious Basterds (all except Up surprised me, pleasantly, when I saw them on the list) were all "MUST! SEE! THIS!!!", but I just never got around to it. However, given how emotioanlly unstable I've been over the past year, I doubt that I'd get through that much-discussed first ten minutes of Up.

So, I'm going to start catching up.

Also, I'm going to scour the interwebs for The Secret of Kells, just because it got an animated nod and is a 2D film. In fact, I'm glad that the animated film category was rather well-rounded in terms of animation (instead of just being 3D CGI). I'd like to see Coraline pick SOMETHING up, but it looks like it had the misfortune of coming out the year Pixar released a movie.

Fire up Netflix, I got some movies to a-watch!
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